From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:
Forwards letters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 2
Summary:
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.11: 260
Summary:
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 393
Summary:
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 45
Summary:
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:
Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 250
Summary:
Will publish Origin first
and then Descent.
AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 196
Summary:
Suggests movements of sensitive plants may protect against insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 197
Summary:
JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 23
Summary:
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 47
Summary:
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
15 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 24
Summary:
A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[13–26 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 26
Summary:
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Contributor:
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From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 198
Summary:
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, Francis
- Darwin, C. R.223
- Darwin, Elizabeth8
- Darwin, G. H.8
- Darwin, H. E.8
- Darwin, Horace8
- Darwin, Leonard8
- Darwin, W. E.8
- Litchfield, H. E.8
- Rogers, J. I.4
- Butler, Samuel (b)3
- Darwin, Amy2
- Darwin, Emma2
- Darwin, Sara2
- Ruck, Amy2
- Sedgwick, Sara2
- Tait, Lawson2
- Wedgwood, Emma2
- Ainslie, O. A.1
- Flower, W. H.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Garrod, A. H.1
- Greaves, E. A.1
- Hadley, E. A.1
- Jackson, Henry1
- King, George1
- Krause, Ernst1
- Matthews, M. A.1
- Moorsom, W. M.1
- Niven, James1
- Ruck, M. A.1
- Stecker, Anton1
- Wilson, A. S.1